TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Alice TI - The temple of my familiar SN - 0671003763 AV - PS3573.A425 T46 1997 U1 - 813.54 20 PY - 1997/// printing, c1989 CY - New York PB - Washington Square Press KW - interleaved stories N1 - The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the first time; and Lissie, a vibrant creature with a thousand pasts ER -